Oct12003
I’ll Take Bad Ideas for $200, Alex
from the Houston Chronicle
Band’s Nazi number strikes wrong chord
A high school band director has apologized for a halftime performance that included Adolf Hitler’s anthem Deutschland Uber Alles and a student running across the field with a Nazi flag.
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Kinda puts some of our crap shows into perspective…
Who was the kid that ran with the flag? “Ok Johnny…take this and run to the 50…wave it around, then run back…people will love it!”
Worst part, my understanding is that the performance was on Rosh Hashana.
I’ll play devil’s advocate and say that they did say they were trying to portray an historically accurate view of WWII. The Nazis were a part of WWII and it doesn’t sound like this band was trying to celebrate Nazism or condone what the Nazis did, they just wanted to represent that side of the war in their show, to make it historically accurate. And it disappoints me to hear that now they are eliminating all flags from their show except the US flag. Just my random comments on the day.